While there’s no word as of yet on what the plot for the crossover will be, Annalise Keating is a top-notch lawyer and Olivia Pope is a former lawyer who specialises in political crisis management – so they’re hardly worlds apart. We can definitely imagine a scenario where Pope might be requiring the talents of a certain Miss Keating!

Scandal is currently filming its seventh and final season while HTGAWM is in its fourth season.

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The 10 most stylish TV characters

TV shows are supposed to be known for the dramatics, storylines and interesting characters, but sometimes characters’ fashion choices stand out so much that we can’t help but take notice. Whether they are sporting Prada handbags or expensive three-piece suits, here are some of the best-dressed characters on TV:

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Olivia Pope

The two things Olivia from Scandal loves more than the President is a neutral-coloured Prada bag and designer oversized coats. The head gladiator-in-charge never has a bad fashion moment when she’s running around fixing problems at the White House. Even when she’s just at home enjoying a glass of wine, she can be seen wearing super stylish pyjamas.

Clara Oswald

Clara, of Doctor Who, is by far the most stylish companion yet. One of the reasons we love Clara is because of her casual but cute sense of style on the show. Clara dresses like the girlfriend we can grab coffee with on a Sunday afternoon. Her floral dresses and schoolgirl skirts make it easy for people to relate to her. Clara usually completes her outfits with a crossover bag when she’s traveling with the Doctor.

The Girls of Pretty Little Liars

Even though Aria, Spencer, Hanna and Emily have a crazy stalker on their tale in every episode of Pretty Little Liars, they never seem to miss out on the latest fashion trends. To set them apart from one another, the girls have their own unique sense of style. Aria is adventurous with crazy and playful patterns. Spencer is the bookworm, so she wears tailored blazers and pencil skirts. Hannah can be seen in flirty and fun tops and dresses while Emily is the casual one in mostly stylish jeans and shirts.

Cookie Lyon

Cookie’s crazy costumes are so fun to watch on Empire because they are so unpredictable. The bright furs and animal prints just scream for attention whenever she walks into a room. This choice of style works for her character because she is loud and dramatic about everything she does.

Alice Vaughan

The private investigator from The Catch has yet to reach UK TV screens (it’s scheduled for Sky Living in May) but she’s already making a fashion statement stateside. Alice is a name partner at a PI firm so she always has to look her best for her clients. She can catch bad guys while in high heels, tight pencil skirts and cute blouses. Totally bad-ass.

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Sherlock Holmes

Traditionally, detective Sherlock Holmes is known for his iconic uniform which includes a tweed coat and a deerstalker hat. However, Benedict Cumberbatch wears a modernised version of the uniform in Sherlock. The slim-fitting suit, the trench coat and the blue scarf looks very stylish and well put together while Holmes is solving crimes.

Frank Delfino

If we had to give an award for “The Sexiest Murderous Assistant in all of Shondaland,” it would no doubt go to Frank Delfino from How to Get Away with Murder. In the show, Frank is good looking dapper and murdering people in cold blood. But his beard and the way he dresses makes all of us ladies (and some gentlemen) swoon, which helps us forget all about his criminal activities.

Elijah Mikaelson

There’s no sibling rivalry like a Mikaelsson sibling rivalry in The Originals, but the one thing the siblings never disagree on is Elijah’s great taste in three-piece suits. The vampire brings lots of charm when he’s ripping people’s throats out of their bodies but he also looks good doing it. We wouldn’t be surprised if the worst part of Elijah’s day is getting other people’s blood on his expensive trousers.

John Reese

Since the beginning of Person of Interest, John Reese was known as the “Man in the Suit.” This was actually how police identified him while he was playing a vigilante on the streets of NYC. The white collared shirt and two-piece suit go perfectly with his dreamy face.

Lucifer Morningstar

Lucifer is another newcomer to our TV screens and he is probably the most handsome Devil yet. In most episodes Lucifer is dressed as if he just stepped out of the cover of GQ magazine. Looking chic is a big deal when you own a club that has bring in lots of sexy women everyday.

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Every lawyer in legal dramas

The characters of TV shows like The Good Wife, Suits and How To Get Away with Murder need their own platform because they always look fashionable no matter what situation they are in. From watching these shows it’s almost as if being stylish comes with being a lawyer. Sometimes some lawyers go as far as pointing out how much they spend on their clothes and shoes. We can bet it’s more than an average person’s monthly rent.

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5 reasons everybody should be watching How To Get Away With Murder

If you’re a big fan of US TV, you might have heard about How To Get Away With Murder, the new legal drama taking the US by storm. If not, you’re about to. The series stars the Oscar-nominated Viola Davis and is from the creators of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal.

How To Get Away With Murder is a smart, sexy piece of television that glamorises criminal law without taking away from the nitty-gritty details. It features complex characters and really thrives in its ability to tell a story in many part, interspersed with many plotlines. In short, HTGAWM is exciting as hell to watch, and so far it’s only getting better.

Here are five reasons why we think you’d be mad to miss it:

1) Viola Davis

Viola Davis is magnetic as Professor Annalise Keating, whose character undoubtedly could be a disaster if played by an actress with less ability to capture nuance. We don’t really have a reason to like Annalise at first – she’s strict, she’s cheating on her husband, and she doesn’t really have any moral qualms (defence attorney). Yet the character draws you in with the raw power that Davis so easily commands. Even when this woman is upset, you won’t see a crack of it unless she lets you. It’s no surprise that her students are desperate – maybe even willing to kill – for her respect. This woman doesn’t take opportunities, she carves them out of nothing for herself. And look at her success rate.

2) Characters

How To Get Away With Murder hosts a diverse selection of interesting, complex characters – each desperate for Annalise’s approval in some way. There’s Wes – the underdog wait-list student who wins Annalise’s approval with his ideas, Michaela – the workaholic who’s determined to be the next Annalise, Connor – the clever guy who’s willing to drop to all kinds of dirty methods to get to the top, Laurel – the coolheaded moral compass (or is she?), and Asher – the preppy rich guy with daddy’s connections.

3) Learning criminal law

Each episode contains its own individual trial whilst making moves towards solving an overarching mystery. Sounds simple, but so many shows are incapable of progressing a long-running story whilst keeping each case stand-alone. With HTGAWM this is an art form, and consequently there are a lot of different cases – where Annalise defends both victims and perpetrators – in which we learn how to get away with murder and other abhorrent crimes. I don’t know how useful this will ever be, and if you’re a big fan of law drama it’s stuff you’ll already know, but look how excellently packaged it is.

4) Mystery

What you get in HTGAWM is an excellently paced mystery. Each episode contains flash-forwards to the students dealing with the nasty aftermath of a murder – but why? Who committed the murder(s) and for what reason? Each episode presents more ideas, more information, and moves an inch closer to the truth as we learn about the sort of people these students are and the dirty secrets held by Annalise. I was sceptical about how the show would be able to create the same excitement when these answers are finally revealed, but it just gets better.

5) Representation

How To Get Away With Murder is an excellent example of the new world order that’s happening far too slowly in television, which is basically that other people in the world exist apart from straight, white men. Finally. And at university, it’s more than likely students and professors would have very diverse backgrounds. Don’t worry if you’re a fan of the privileged white asshole guy though, you’ve got Asher, and he’s actually a sweetheart.

How To Get Away With Murder returns to Universal Channel on March 2 at 10pm.

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How To Get Away With Murder: 5 Things We Learnt In 2.01 “It’s Time To Move On”

The season premiere of How To Get Away With Murder just aired on Universal Channel and what an opener it was! Filled to the brim with secrets, flashbacks, and – most importantly – more murder, it’s made us super hyped for the rest of the season. Viola, we missed you.

Here are five things we learnt from season 2 episode 1 “It’s Time To Move On“:

Warning: Spoilers abound.

1. Bonnie murdered Rebecca.

How To Get Away With Murder literally did the last thing any of us expected and revealed the identity of Rebecca’s killer almost immediately. After Annalise and Frank blaming each other and then beginning to suspect Wes and Laurel – Annalise came to the shocking realisation that the usually meek Bonnie was the real culprit.

After Annalise arrives at Bonnie’s door and shouts at her for what she’s done, Bonnie insists she’d only done for Annalise what Annalise would have done for her. There’s got to be more of that story on the way, and I’m excited because Bonnie has waited on the sidelines for a good story for too long now.

The mystery of Famke Jannsen’s character is a mystery no more! The X-Men alum plays the Death Row attorney and former Harvard classmate of Annalise, Eve Rothlow. She’s the attorney Annalise told Nate to call at the end of last season, and she initially rejects the case twice before Annalise convinces her otherwise.

Oh, and she’s also Annalise’s former lover and still majorly hung up over Annalise leaving her for Sam.

3. Laurel is no longer the moral heart of the Keating Five.

When How To Get Away With Murder started last season, Laurel was the wet drip I couldn’t get along with. The necessary character in every defence attorney drama who questions to moral value of protecting the guilty. That part of her has been dwindling for a while, but this episode she stepped up and did the sort of dirty work Connor might have been up to last season.

Presenting herself as an employee of a spa where the Hapstall siblings’ aunt had visited, she submits doctored evidence to the Hapstalls’ defence team in order for them to be discredited and for Annalise to win the Hapstalls as clients.

Later, she confronts Frank about the murder of Rebecca. Frank later admits to Annalise that he suspects it may have been Laurel who killed Rebecca, hinting about Laurel’s turbulent family upbringing. A mighty turn from last season, eh?

4. Asher’s a mole.

Asher’s finally being given something to do other than play the adorable doucheface and only person in the Keating household with no idea who really murdered Sam.

In this episode it’s revealed Asher’s been providing information about Annalise to the dark side. In a tense last few minutes, we see Asher converse with the lawyer trying to learn what really happened the night of Sam’s murder. She blackmails him into revealing information about Eve, saying she knows about ‘Trotter Lake’, which clearly means something to Asher.

5. Wherever the Keating Five go, trouble follows. Or: This season is going to be awesome.

In a thrilling end of episode sequence, the Hapstalls’ aunt is murdered, which works out pretty well for Annalise’s new clients. And where exactly are Annalise, Wes, Connor, Michaela and Laurel? Annalise has conveniently taken them of a very teacher-student appropriate night out clubbing, where loads of people can see them. These guys are really getting the hang of the alibi thing.

And that’s not forgetting the real shocker of the night:

Wait! What?!

Why is Wes running away?!

Find out (maybe) next Wednesday on How To Get Away With Murder at 9pm, exclusively on Universal Channel.

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International Women’s Day: TV’s Most Badass Women

There are so many badass women kicking butt on TV in 2015! While this is something we think should be celebrated every day of the year, Sunday is International Women’s Day, so we’ve compiled a hells-yeah list of feisty females who bring the fire to our favourite shows on TV. Can we get an ‘amen!’?

Cookie Lyon (Taraji P. Henson) – Empire

It’s an undisputed fact that Cookie Lyon is the reason everyone’s watching Empire. Cookie slays every scene in the show by having the loudest voice, the loudest outfit, and the loudest attitude at all times. She’s not afraid to throw a shoe at her ex-husband, beat her youngest son with a broom, and generally show everyone who’s boss. In a room with Naomi Campbell and Courtney Love, she’s still queen bee. Even better, the woman’s got substance. On top of being a straight up thug-diva, Cookie’s a shrewd business woman, a protective and supportive mother, and a caring ex-wife to Lucious when she needs to be. She’s fierce but fair, and she’s rightly taking the world by storm.

Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) – Parks and Recreation

Parks and Rec may have come to an end last month, but the legend of Leslie will live on forever. Ms. Knope taught us it’s totally possible to be goofy, girly and powerful all at the same time, and we’ve loved watching her develop into one of comedy’s most empowering women over the past six years. We also love the impact her influence has had on the other ladies in the show, namely April and Donna, who’ve grown to own their awesomeness more and more under her tutelage. Oh, and ladies celebrating ladies over breakfast? We think every day should be Galentine’s Day.

Jessica Huang (Constance Wu) – Fresh Off the Boat

The matriarch in a house of three sons, this woman knows how to take control of a situation and shut it down. So far she’s mowed down some dine-and-dashers in her car and proceeded to pelt them with onions, taught her kids not to date rape, and carved out a career for herself as a realtor when no advertised jobs were paying high enough for her time. Best of all, this badass character is based on the real life Jessica Huang (mother of the show’s creator Eddie Huang), who had this to say about herself: “My sons always told me that I’m too loud and I need to not be so loud. I told them they just have to get used to it because that’s who I am!”. Heck yes.

Lisa Simpson (voiced by Yeardley Smith) – The Simpsons

Almost like a cartoon prototype of Leslie Knope, Lisa Simpson has been teaching little girls it’s cool to be smart since before I was born. Remember when she challenged sexism in the doll industry in ‘Lisa vs. Malibu Stacey’, or the time she took on Mr Burns’s environmental irresponsibility in ‘The Old Man and the Lisa’? A daily reminder that even society’s youngest women can make a positive difference to the world and grow up to be whoever they want to be, the influence had by this tiny role model is simply immeasurable.

Caitlin Snow (Danielle Panabaker) – The Flash

Dr. Caitlin Snow is everything we want to be; caring and loyal, brave in the face of danger, a bio-engineering genius, and yet still able to laugh at herself being a dork. We love how she’s not intimidated by anyone, and completely owns her place in the typically ‘male’ world of S.T.A.R Labs. More often than not she’s the voice of reason, finding the perfect solution to the practical problem or moral dilemma at hand, and generally showing the rest of them how it’s done. Sure, The Flash canon has her on a predestined trajectory to becoming a super-villain, but Dr. Snow can nevertheless do no wrong in our eyes.

Jane Villanueva (Gina Rodriguez) – Jane The Virgin

Moral, compassionate, hard-working: Jane Villanueva is almost too good to be true, and completely unafraid to stick up for herself. What other woman on television has worked three jobs as a teacher, scriptwriter and waitress, whilst heavily pregnant with a baby she didn’t even naturally conceive? NOBODY. She’ll go to any lengths to look after her family, like braving the worst thunderstorm ever in search of her grandmother’s rosary. We wish we could be a bit more like Jane! That’s one lucky (if unexpected) baby she’s bringing into the world!

Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) – How To Get Away With Murder

Prof. A. Keating is on here for many reasons including managing her own law practice, being a university professor and being damn good at everything she does. She’ll win your defence case if you let her (providing she wants to). She’ll hold her head up regardless of the whole heap of awfulness that is her personal life, and you’ll never notice anything was wrong. But despite her fierce success, she cares for her students and clients, she’s loyal (we think!), and she holds no prejudice towards anyone who might need her help. She also gives one epic speech in court.

Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) – Game of Thrones

Victim-turned-leader and fighter for freedom Daenerys Targaryen is GoT‘s obvious choice for badass woman. Abused by her brother and forced to marry for political gain, Dany escaped her brother’s clutches and became the assertive, compassionate and well-respected leader we know her as today. Even after losing her beloved husband and child, she’s still determined to fight for those who have less than she does. She’s also the only potential candidate for monarch in the Seven Kingdoms right now making an honest effort at learning how to rule a country, so we have to give her props for that.